Subversion

Installation

Configuration

I configured subversion version 1.5.2 with the following configure line:

#!/bin/sh
# 
# run this configure script
# make
# make install

./configure \
 --prefix=/path/to/subversion \
 --with-ssl \
 --without-berkeley-db \
 --enable-swig-bindings=no \
 --with-apxs=/path/to/apache/bin/apxs \
 --with-neon=/usr/local \
 --with-apr=/path/to/apache \
 --with-apr-util=/path/to/apache

I have to point subversion to apache so that it can handle subversion repository addresses that begin with http:// or https:// (as opposed to the default svn://, which works fine out of the box).

Dependencies

To install subversion with the above configure line, I had to install Apache, and I also had to install Neon, which is an HTTP and WebDAV client software. It is required for the http:// and https:// repository addresses. It's available from http://www.webdav.org/neon/. I install it to /usr/local/, and without any particularly special configure line (just ./configure).

SVN Guide

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SVN Server

Some syntax:

Subversion is run as a server or as a client. Users (clients) check out files from a server.

A subversion server can have many different repositories, or it can have just one.

The following guide covers how to set up a subversion server, and how to create new repositories in the server.

Setting up a new SVN server

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Creating a new repository

Step 1: crate a place for the subversion repository

$ svnadmin create /path/to/repositories/repository_name

Step 2: import files into the repository:

$ svn import /location/of/files file:///path/to/repositories/repository_name -m "Initial import"

(You must use file:///path/ syntax, rather than an absolute path).

Step 3: check out code from the new repository

$ svn checkout svn://hostname/repository_name working_copy --username=user